Inherited

inherited
    adj 1: occurring among members of a family usually by heredity;
           "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically
           transmitted features" [syn: {familial}, {genetic},
           {hereditary}, {inherited}, {transmitted},
           {transmissible}]
    

Inherit \In*her"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inherited}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Inheriting}.] [OE. enheriten to inherit, to give a
   heritage to, OF. enheriter to appoint as an heir, L.
   inhereditare; pref. in- in + hereditare to inherit, fr. heres
   heir. See {Heir}.]
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   1. (Law) To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by
      inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor
      or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive
      as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at
      his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate
      of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his
      father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the
      crown.
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   2. To receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to derive
      or acquire from ancestors, as mental or physical
      qualities, genes, or genetic traits; as, he inherits a
      strong constitution, a tendency to disease, etc.; to
      inherit hemophilia
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            Prince Harry is valiant; for the cold blood he did
            naturally inherit of his father he hath . . .
            manured . . . with good store of fertile sherris.
                                                  --Shak.
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   3. To come into possession of; to possess; to own; to enjoy
      as a possession.
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            But the meek shall inherit the earth. --Ps. xxxvii.
                                                  11.
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            To bury so much gold under a tree,
            And never after to inherit it.        --Shak.
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   4. To put in possession of. [R.] --Shak.
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inherited \inherited\ adj. (Genetics)
   tending to occur among members of a family usually by
   heredity; as, an inherited disease.

   Syn: familial, genetic, hereditary, transmitted,
        transmissible.
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32 Moby Thesaurus words for "inherited":
      atavistic, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate,
      connatural, constitutional, genetic, genic, hereditary,
      in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, innate,
      instinctive, instinctual, matroclinous, native, native to, natural,
      natural to, organic, patrimonial, patroclinous, physical, primal,
      temperamental, unacquired